Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Hello, my Friends!I'd hoped to check in with pictures from my wild and crazy garden, instead, I'll share an email that a friend sent me. (We FINALLY got the new computer - it's up and running, but the old one isn't "hooked up" in it's new place. THAT means I don't have access to my pictures)With that said, I'll share the email. I hope you enjoy it too! (It sure gets me ALL EXCITED!) =-)

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets? You don't know, but you want to know..

So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store. The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None. From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky. North. South. East. West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy..

The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.

Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is.

Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:

I am the Alpha and the Omega.

The angels bow their heads.. The elders remove their crowns. And before you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know: Nothing else matters. Forget stock markets and school reports, sales meetings, and football games. Nothing is newsworthy. All that mattered, matters no more....

For Christ has come.

WHEW! Now, THAT makes me want to go HOME TODAY! Can you imagine being in HIS presence? Can you imagine NEVER feeling alone, sad, or scared again? Can you imagine being with PERFECT LOVE FOREVER?? Wow!

I'll try to check back first thing tomorrow to share my new pictures. Thanks SO MUCH for checking in. =-)

LOVE YOU!

6 comments:

No, I can't imagine that day. I can't imagine what it will be like. In this moment, I wonder if I will be jealous and wanting to be closer to His presence. It is just very hard to imagine how we all will be so close to Him with so many people, 100s of 1000s.

You are so right! Can you imagine? I know it will be most glorious. What a wonderful promise.We have to always remember..It's win-win situation for all of us who believe....Being here...we live with those who are here...being there with Jesus...we get to be with Him and all our loved ones who have gone before us!Yes...It's a win- win- situation!..no doubt!Thanks so much for sharing that..I will be back to visit...and hope to see the pictures.

Isaiah 26:3-4 (New Living Translation)

3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You! 4 Trust in the Lordalways, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.

Our Sweet Brent (at 11)

10/28/1995 - 01/02/07

Brent's Story...

Our son Brent suddenly started to complain with back pain in the fall of 2004. He was playing flag football with the town league and loved to roughhouse with his two younger brothers so the pain was dismissed at first. After having him tested for kidney and bladder infections and finding him clear we finally asked for an MRI of his back. A couple of weeks later (the very day of the MRI) we received a phone call from his doctor saying that a tumor was found in his pelvic area. We were asked how quickly we could get him to St. Jude Children's Hospital - we left IMMEDIATELY. Later that same week we got the diagnosis. It was one that we would NEVER, EVER forget. It was Stage IV Neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system. His chances of survival when diagnosed were 1/4 - 1/3. When he relapsed we were reminded there was NO CURE. There was basically no hope of survival... none outside the HOPE we had in JESUS.

Brent fought long and hard. He was a Christian and LOVED his SAVIOR. He NEVER asked "why" or complained. He took each day as it was - a gift from GOD. Brent went HOME to be with the LORD on January 2, 2007. He was 11 years old. If I've EVER had a "hero" in this world.... it would be him.

Zach, Gabe & Me

Zach - at the age of 11

Gabe at age 7 (He's 8 as of 12/21)

Hubby & Me

Psalm 16:7-9

7I will bless the LORD who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night. 8I have set the LORD continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely.

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